Laurie Notaro famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally, and if something blocks your route, find another. Never give up.
-- Laurie Notaro

#Uplifting #Giving Up #Block
Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.
-- Laurie Notaro

#Running #Space #Towns
Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.
-- Laurie Notaro

#Tattoo #Book #Inmates
I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far.
-- Laurie Notaro

#Running #Saws #Enough
I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.
-- Laurie Notaro

#Running #Reading #Stories
I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.
-- Laurie Notaro

#Writing #Arizona #Journalism
I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
-- Laurie Notaro

#Taxes #Deadline #Tax Day
You're fighting a battle of good and evil with your dog pimp! Your only weapon is the shimmy! There is power in the shimmy! Make him fear your shimmy! Now, goddamnit, show me your war shimmy!
-- Laurie Notaro

#Dog #War #Fighting
My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything.
-- Laurie Notaro

#Violence #My Family #Needed
I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor.
-- Laurie Notaro

#Dog #Nice #Men
Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching--and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book.
-- Laurie Notaro

#Laughter #Dad #Book
Bad boyfriends don't disguise themselves; their girlfriends do it for them.
-- Laurie Notaro

#Girlfriend #Bad Boyfriend #Bad Boy
Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.
-- Laurie Notaro

#People #Welcome #Clown
I have more faith in my bra than I have in my accountant.
-- Laurie Notaro

#Bras #Accountants
I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them.
-- Laurie Notaro

#Dog #Hair #Tragedy

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